Are You Wasting Your Money on Synthetic Vitamins?

July24Lioness

“Yep. Most expensive urine in the world.”
Image by Mike Adams – naturalnews.com

here is the link to the article.

http://wholefoodnation.com/newsite/articles/synthetic_vitamins/index.html

If you’re one of the millions of Americans who take vitamins everyday, you may not be getting what you think – Chances are you’re taking a synthetic vitamin, like most everyone else is.

And that’s the problem – 90% of synthetic vitamins pass right through you! That’s why people joke about Americans having the most expensive urine in the world.

But for some people it’s not funny. Studies show that synthetic vitamins might even be harmful.

Zoltan P. Rona, M.D., says that while a healthy person will not drop dead immediately after ingesting synthetic supplements, "the long-term consequences of continuous, daily intakes are potentially dangerous."

Reactions include fatigue, memory loss, depression, insomnia and potential liver disorders.

Why would makers of health products let this happen? Maybe they got carried away with concerns about shelf life, the look and taste of products, machine requirements, and manufacturing costs. Whatever the reasons, it appears that synthetic vitamins are mostly useless and might even be risky.

How to tell if your vitamins are synthetic

1. Look at the names of the vitamins and minerals in the “Ingredients” listing on the label of the bottle. (You may need a magnifying glass J.) A vitamin or mineral is synthetic if only its chemical and/or popular name appears, with no plant source. See the sidebar for an example of such names.

2. Synthetic supplements also often contain weird ingredients, including:

• Additives : Glucose, sucrose, starch, microcrystalline cellulose etc. for binding or dissolving ingredients, or for texture and taste.

• Artificial colors, like FD&C Blue #2 Lake, or FD&C Red 40

• Preservatives: sorbates (eg, Polysorbate 80), benzoates (eg, sodium benzoate), nitrites (eg, sodium nitrite), sulphites (eg, sulphur dioxide)

The weird ingredients are underlined in the example in the sidebar. As required by the FDA, ingredients are listed in order of quantity – largest first.

There’s a new class of supplements called “whole food supplements” – single whole food vitamins (like Vitamin C from rose hips or camucamu), or whole food multis.

“Whole food ingredients naturally contain the hundreds of “cofactors” the body needs to absorb vitamins.”
The ingredients in whole food supplements are primarily concentrated forms of the vegetables, fruits, herbs or spices, known to be rich sources of vitamins and other known nutrients. They usually do not contain artificial colors, preservatives and other toxic additives. Whole food ingredients naturally contain the hundreds of “cofactors” (other nutrients) the body needs to absorb vitamins.

When cofactors are missing, as they are in synthetic vitamins, the body may treat the vitamin as a foreign substance and eliminate it. Or it may grab the needed cofactors from its own organs, bones, muscles and other tissue. In other words, your body starts eating itself. Over time, this depletes the body, causing disease and degeneration.

Whole food supplements solve these problems while providing vitamins the body can absorb.

July24Lioness

Personally, I started purchasing raw vitamins from my Apothecary and I notice a big difference and no more NEON yellow urine.

LOL, I used to call it nuclear pee. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: